Angelo Bernardino is an oceanographer and professor of oceanography at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo in Brazil, where he studies the ecology of coastal and deep-sea marine ecosystems. Bernardino has a background in deep-sea biology, but recently expanded his work to coastal blue carbon ecosystems in Brazil. Bernardino was one of the lead Explorers on the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition, a multi-year series of solutions-centered science and storytelling expeditions spanning the entire Amazon River Basin, from the Andes to the Atlantic. He worked to determine the effects of land use and climate change impacts on mangrove forests in the Amazon region. Bernardino is also an explorer on a series of Ocean expeditions as part of the Perpetual Planet Ocean program, with cruises to the Southern Ocean, and expeditions in Gambia. Bernardino is collaborating with many explorers around the word to explore new marine ecosystems, help highlight their biodiversity and communicate their importance to the world. In this expedition with Falkor Too, Bernardino will be collaborating with geologists and ecologists, and will be leading the identification and ecological work with the deep-sea biodiversity associated with the Amazon River submarine canyon, and explore the connectivity of marine organisms to organic carbon potentially delivered from the Amazon river basin.
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